Project Two - Tuesday Chosen Idea

Our chosen idea is no. 6 the king's son and the painted lion. the moral is that we had better bare our troubles bravely than try to escape them.

Project Two - Monday Ideas

Oh my!!! There's 640 fables to choose from... that took time, i gave instruction to my fellow group-mates to go home and choose 5 to 10 fables that they each preferred. so i guess tomorrow in class we have to go through 50 fables haha.. Anyway for your information, the website to the fables is www.aesopfables.com check it out for yourself. 

This is my list of Fables in which i've chosen.

No. 1 The Ant and the Chrysalis

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheAntandtheChrysalis

i've chosen this fable because although it's moral is that of appearances are deceptive, i feel the other hidden moral in which i've learnt from this fable is that we should always humble ourselves like how the Chrysalis did initially when the Ant mocked him, cause no matter how if you're better and you know it you'll always have the last laugh. 

i intend to do a short biography of this humble man, something like our channel 8 drama you fu...haha it reminded me of that character. haha.. Maybe i can have him caught in a situation when his friends mocked him stupid due to his actions as he did not think about himself. Rather than being cliche now i feel like doing a documentary of a humble yet successful man. Real life perhaps. 

No. 2 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheWolfinSheepsClothing2

This is another fable with the same moral. However, this story made me thought of one of my compositions in secondary school; i could do a short film out of it. It's about a man hooking a girl up in a posh party. this girl is tall, elegant and mesmerizing she had the X-FACTOR! So as attracted as any man would be, the lead actor approaches her and tries to hook her up. After witty lines, and shallow but hilarious conversations, the girl decided to allow the guy to send her home. Like a wolf preying the sheep, the guy took advantage and the girl stupidly allowed and added fuel to it. Soon they end up in her bedroom and just when the magic was about to happen, the girl turned out to have something sticking out between her legs and that's the end. How exasperated the lead actor must have been. Instead of the lead actor being the predator, he became the prey so that's the twist and the girl who is actually a transie was the wolf all along.

No. 3 The Vixen and the Lioness

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheVixenandtheLioness

This fable talks about how people like to brag. Actually i've no idea how i would execute this idea and fable. But i like the fact that, no matter how people brag about what they have, as long as you see your own possession as of precious, it would out beat any other people's comments.

No. 4 The One Eyed Doe

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheOneEyedDoe

This fable is one funny one, it shows how stupid this one eyed blind doe is. Not even semi-charmed life. I want to show how one person tries so hard but in the very end he still fails and life can never be a success if you try to resolve things alone. Lets say if the Doe had a partner watching out at his blind side would he be alive in the end? I want to show the relationship between 2 people. helping each other along the way. I want if i can get a twin conjoined together. And show how they need to support each other in the things they do.

No. 5 The Miser 

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheMiser&miser.jpg

This fable show how stupid people are in the world today. Just like the miser, people of today put their money into the ground in modern context, they put it in the bank for that 2% or less. I feel that people should waken up and realize they are putting their money to waste. Instead they should invest their money to make it grow or to invest it in themselves. i want to do a biblical adaptation of one of Jesus' parable. There's this parable whereby the master gave his workers money while his away. 2 workers invested the money and both earned, the master was happy but there's 1 worker who kept the money in the ground and when the master returned, he returned the money safely to him and through his laziness, the master rebuked him.  

No. 6 The King's Son and the Painted Lion

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheKingsSonandthePaintedLion

This Story tells us to face our troubles bravely. How to show this attribute in not a cliche manner? I want to show it in 4 different styles of people making decisions. 4 different people going through a trouble and i show them making a decision in the end. when the short film comes to an end, i want to show a split screen of 4 shots together in one frame. Although the stories doesn't have link literally, the link is Aesop's fable when all of them made a decision and thus the different outcomes. The moral of the story links the random stories together. Hence emphasizing the moral in the end.

No. 7 The Horse, Hunter and Stag

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheHorseHunterandStag

I want to show how people are being made used. I want to show how you shouldn't make use of others as you'll be made used of in the end if you treat your friends like that. That's how i feel when it comes to lazy group mates. I feel like making a short film on how classmates makes used of each other. And how the world is like that today, people leveraging over others strength.

No. 8 Hercules and the Waggoner

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&HerculesandtheWaggoner

Haha, the God didn't help cause he don't exist. But in this fable we learnt to depend on ourself. Ironically, not depending on others, we'll become a loner. But that's not it, it shows us how we should do our part and trying our best to slve our problems and people will just come and help you. If you don't help yourself how do you wish people to help you, you're just probably a lazy bum.

No. 9 The Four Oxen and the Lion

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheFourOxenandtheLion

This fable shows how scheming some people are and this shows how the world is like without any protection. Hence i want to film all the different types of scams and cheats and to end of with it i want to show the point of view from a scammer scamming an old lady's money because my grandmother got scammed before, knowing how being scammed would feel, i want to film down the difficulty of scamming as well hence showing that when people actually scams their feelings are gone. 

No. 10 The Man and the Lion

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?3&TheManandtheLion

One story is good till another is told. This moral is very nice as it shows you how twists in film or story telling makes the standard a notch higher. When everything is finally pieced together, the power of twists makes a film but i believe it could break a film as well. This is something i've got to learn. For now i've no ideas on how to execute this idea. 

No. 11 The Oak and the Reeds

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?3&TheOakandtheReeds

Stoops and conquer that's the moral behind this story. No ideas yet.

No. 12 The Raven and the Swan

http://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?3&TheRavenandtheSwan

Like how leopards can never change its spots, i want to show with stop motion how someone can never change it's flavor even if its appearance changes a thousand times.

Project Two - Monday Bitching

On monday, i was briefed on this project; project two, on what i am supposed to do for these 15 days. Straight after briefing, i were separated into groups of 1 animation class and 2 video classes. Although i was posted back into Julian's class which i was supposed to be in, my classmates changed totally. Until that point i still thought i could work with my other friends from another class. Anyway we were grouped into our different classes according to out Video Production 1 class. The funny thing is that in our Video Production 1, there are 2 different classes one thought by Yoke ee and the other thought by Yvonne. Through communication with my course mates, what we've learnt was very different. Yoke ee gave us technical classes of lighting, sound and pre-production and we only had to do up a short production of about 1 or 2 scenes; on average 2mins long clip within about 4 days, 1 day of shoot and the rest post production. While on the other hand, Yvonne's assignment was totally different, her requirements also trained the student in another way, for example, students in her class have to fill up so many forms like actors release form and location release forms. In her class students are thought to follow a standard way of doing things while for Yoke ee we're able to play with our own creativity a little more. So as we were thought differently, it's good that the classes mixed but i've no idea why the arrangement was changed, was it due to convenience sake? Anyway the 2 different classes should had been mixed as we could had learn from each other. Oh well, no choice... What was really unfair in my class was we can't get to choose who we want to work with! this project is going to be in our portfolio can't we choose who we want to work with in order to produce a better final piece?  Well, saying that in the working world, we have to work with people we don't like is quite true but, for Yoke ee's class, we've already randomized our groups!!!! another month of it will drive me crazy.. Anyway, for my group so far it's okay.. Other than some conflicts here and there, problems were being resolved. Through these few discussions, we learnt to handle our group members. But still it's so unfair, other classes can choose who they want to work with!!! the more comfortable we feel the better our work will turn out. Trust is also another thing that will be a problem when our group is being picked by the lecturer instead of us. You see, we need to trust our group mates and those that we can trust are those that we feel comfortable in! Great, now those who doesn't do work leeches off those who do all the work like crazy... Enough of bitching! Joshua... Anyway i've no idea what i'm supposed to post online. Since it's an Online Journal, i'll just write entry to what i've done and what i wish to do, my thoughts and my work.